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Subject: Re: Eating Crow is good with Tobasco..

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:43:33 12/02/05

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On December 02, 2005 at 17:47:00, Tony Nichols wrote:

>On December 02, 2005 at 17:21:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>It is time to stop this now.  The above is utter nonsense.  We don't "search"
>>hash tables.  Larger hash tables do not take longer to search, because we just
>>don't search them.  We randomly probe into them and either hit or miss, so the
>>size has absolutely no effect other than larger sizes hold more information
>>without requiring that older data be overwritten sooner.
>>
>>You are quoting nonsense...
>
>
>Hello,
>
> Is it safe to assume that you can't have too much hash? I mean, as long as you
>have the ram.

There are exceptional situations where you do not want a huge hash table (for
instance, if a program clears its hash between moves (such as CM does) then you
do not want gigantic hash for blitz games.)

Normally, the more the merrier.



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